5 months

We finally have a rolie  polie. She not quite at the part I remember Preston bring where he took advantage of rolling over but she is definitely not staying in the same place. My 5 month old (almost 6 month by this posting) is in 12 month clothing. It's hard to keep up with her but I believe I have another good month before she's probably going to be in 18 month clothes. 

Typically (yes TMI coming) is be weaning her from nursing and gravitating to a bottle but this girl refuses. So unlike her brother and sister who at 6 months were cut off from mommy, it looks like I'll be toting her around for a couple more months. 

A month late but still 3

I've done wonderfully this time about writing about my big 3 year old boy. He's finally understanding that he has a day and he gets gift and cake (although like his father he's not to fond of cake). This year he had his moms brother, uncle Adam, and his dad's sister, aunt Chenal and girls, to help him celebrate along with both grandparents and dads cousin. This boy although still not fully potty trained is finally into big boy underwear!! Yup I had to alert you to that. We've upgraded him to a booster in the car (mainly cause Tory out grew her infant car seat but that's another post).

 I can't believe that I have only 2 short years before really debating wether or not we put him in kindergarten at 5 or 6. I believe he'll be ready at 5. He can recognize letters when he wants to and he can count to 30 when he wants to. We do have him on a waiting list for a day care that does preschool type stuff. That will help determine, plus give mommy a good morning to herself and Tory.

This kid has so many facial expressions I can't keep up. And of course he doesn't do them on demand half the time so I've been unable to capture them. 

Happy belated birthday my sweet lovable terror of a boy.

My big little girl

4 months has flown but at the same time it feels like I've always had her. Tory Mae still won't take a bottle but believe at 18 lb 4 oz she ain't starving lol. She's in the 98% for her weight and at 25" tall she's in the 75% for her height. Love my chubby pumpkin and can't wait to watch her grow :)

She got to go to California and see her uncle Adam this month. Well granted Adam was on the 5th and she turned 4 months on the 4th but oh well, now she just needs to meet Uncle Jason.

Kinder graduate

All I'm going to say is I officially have a 1st grader. It's crazy for me to think about. She did amazing this year and with next year starting the "real stuff" I'm looking forward to seeing her work hard again!

So proud of you Brianna!!!

A glacier trip

So the start of our summer started in CA really but I haven't gotten to those pictures just yet. Today we went up to glacier though for a couple hours. We're gonna go on a nice hike but the trail we picked out turned out to be not dog friendly. Got to do more research it looks like. But we went to the river and let Preston practice skipping rocks. I threw one and it skipped twice (I was sitting down and it wasn't a good skipper rock so I was happy) Preston came up to me and said mommy!! Good job honey!! 

My little boy lol taking after his dad and calling me honey. 

A bittersweet vacation

Where to start. This was a fantastic vacation but lets face it we didn't go to just go have fun and relax. This vacation had a purpose. Bare with me (and I apologize if I make anyone else cry) I didn't cry when I heard the news, except when Brianna cried, I didn't cry when we spread the ashes but for some reason I feel the tears wanting to come out now as I relive being at the ocean and feeling the freezing cold water on my feet as I slowly let the ashes fall from my hand.

 

She was the last grandparent alive and she held on for way to long. She fought a great battle but we knew she needed to end her pain long before she finally did. Not that she actually ended herself but she finally stopped fighting the pain and went home. December 10, 2015 the Davis clan lost their mother/grandmother Sheila Ann Click. As Jason put it she was a small person with a big fiery attitude. I remember when she would come to visit I would think yay grandparents are here time to con them into getting me things. I heard from my friends that their grandparents always brought them stuff or would go shopping with them for toys or whatever. Not my grandma :) she would take me to the store and then say now look we aren't shopping for you we are shopping for me.  Of course it really only happened a couple of times, when our grandparents were snowbirds.

 

Anyways, after I don't know how many years the dogs were finally spread in the ocean. And just a couple days before it'd been 11 years after Grandpa died and on what would have been her 77 birthday, we spread their ashes.

 

 

 

Its hard to see but of course I had to make hearts with everyone's initials

 

 

Well now that we spread the ashes it was time to do some sight seeing and take in what San Simeon had to offer (which wasn't much).

We drove up to Hearst castle. Now I actually don't have any pictures of the castle but I can always add them later and republish this if I get them. The tours of that place have definelty changed from when I went in high school. Its 45 minutes of 3 rooms basically and then you get to walk around the castle grounds by yourself. One thing kind of sucked.. the Neptune pool was missing statues due to trying to restore them and the pool was empty due to trying to fix a problem of it leaking around 5,000 gallons of water per day. It is not set in ground but rather above so the "park" is working with the family to figure out the best way to fix the problem.

 

The next place we went was to an elephant seal viewing spot. It was pretty neat to see. Of course they were all just really laying around but still it was neat to see them blubber (my word for their movement) up onto the beach and then cover themselves with sand to keep themselves cool. And on occasion you got to hear them talk (or grunt rather). It is molting season for them.

 

That night everyone but Grandpa Scott or dad went to the beach until the bugs to heavy.

 

The next day we drove north to Santa Cruz to have some fun at the Board walk. After what seemed like an eternity to find a parking spot we got to :) Pictures will be added later. I haven't downloaded my phone yet. The only picture that is missing is one that we would have had to get from the roller coaster picture station. Preston face is priceless and one picture that isn't even meant for him has him in the corner trying to get one more shot!! Or at least that what it looks like. But I am going to let the rest of the pictures speak for themselves when they get added :). 

 

Over all it was a nice get away and start to our summer! But I will say I will not be flying with small children for a long time. The kids overall did great but travel makes you tired and when you have 3 tired kids and 4 tired adults, no one is happy. 

 

 

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My sweet pumpkin

She's 3 months old. Hard to believe that around this time last year I had just became pregnant with her when I thought the timing was off. My chunky pumpkin is literally a sweet happy angel. She only cries when she's hungry and generally starts gnawing on her hands before she starts crying. She only wakes up once during the night and generally enjoys sleeping on her own. She's finally letting her laugh come out. Smiles all the time and talks up a storm when you talk to her as well. She's ready trying to sit on her own with no luck or balance yet (she'll be sitting up here in a couple months). 

She's just about lost her newborn hair and has her hair growing in nice and blonde but not as blonde as Prestons was. And I already see myself missing her baby fat I know she'll lose.